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>> david bunyer, the tea party meeting in nashville, but some tea partiers saying nashville isn't their representative, drop-outs from leading congress members as well. you know a lot about blue collar anger and the reagan democrats from michigan, your home state. a lot of them came out and saw them in massachusetts and they seem to be the rank and file of the tea party. not just republicans, not just conservatives but a lot of democrats are attracted to this. >> in the political world we have a vacuum through the george w. bush administration but it appears through this first 15 months of -- ...

Henninger, jason and steve moore. what do you think the president's strategy calling the republicans radical like that? >> i think the strategy is riling up his base. yes, he's got to get independent voters to win in 2012. first thing's first, polls shown that his base eroding and not happy with compromises on taxes and keeping guantanamo bay open and so far and right now he's trying to rile up the folks. >> paul: jason, this is many, many months away from election and a lot of tough budget negotiations to go. what i wonder about, okay, you try to get the support of the base and thrilled with ...